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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2015-07-23 11:10:59 +0200
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2015-08-03 09:25:11 +0200
commit55fdcb2d56b6edc027657fde9da0c4f224d32303 (patch)
tree7a56bedf84ec15530dadee70047359e2f079c94e /arch/mips/cavium-octeon
parente070dab73523bcbf2409ba8b5c342d53bccc0959 (diff)
MIPS: Partially disable RIXI support.
Execution of break instruction, trap instructions, emulation of unaligned loads or floating point instructions - anything that tries to read the instruction's opcode from userspace - needs read access to a page. RIXI (Read Inhibit / Execute Inhibit) support however allows the creation of pags that are executable but not readable. On such a mapping the attempted load of the opcode by the kernel is going to cause an endless loop of page faults. The quick workaround for this is to disable the combinations that the kernel currently isn't able to handle which are executable mappings. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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